Download or read book Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems (Classic Reprint) written by Hew Ainslie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scottish Songs, Ballads, and Poems The author of the following fugitive rhymes has long been a truant from the laurelled walks of literature, and now, in the autumnal gloaming of life, like Rip Van Winkle from his mountain slumber, he comes once more among the haunts of men, with antique accoutrements and forgotten phraseology, to enquire of wondering old friends and neighbors - whether this busy world stands Where it did In his hot youth, when George the Third was King '9. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.